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By Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
- Source
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 · Preface, p. vi
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- Internet Archive (University of California scan of the 1891 book edition, London and New York: Ward, Lock)
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From the Preface to Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (London and New York: Ward, Lock, 1891), a set of aphorisms about art that Wilde wrote in his own voice.